A comparison of the pedestrian passive safety performance of the new vehicle fleet in Australia, France and the United Kingdom

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dc.contributor.authorPonte, G.
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, R.
dc.contributor.authorSearson, D.
dc.contributor.conferenceAustralian Road Safety Research Policing and Education Conference (2007 : Melbourne, Australia)
dc.contributor.editorWilliam Gibbons,
dc.contributor.organisationCentre for Automotive Safety Research
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.abstractImprovements to frontal vehicle design can improve a pedestrian's chance of survival in a collision but there are no design rules pertaining to pedestrian protection in Australia. Some overseas regulators are mandating a minimum level of pedestrian safety, and one consequence of this might be a flow of safer designs into the Australian vehicle fleet. To assess this, the distribution of pedestrian safety performance in the new car fleet of Australia was compared to those of France and the United Kingdom. A greater proportion of new passenger vehicles rated less than 2-stars for pedestrian safety by Euro NCAP and ANCAP are sold in Australia than in France and the United Kingdom. Furthermore, the portion of the new car fleet in France and the United Kingdom assessed by Euro NCAP/ANCAP since the beginning of 2006 has shown significant improvement and has a larger proportion of better performing vehicles than the equivalent segment of the Australian new car fleet. This period corresponds with the introduction of vehicle pedestrian safety requirements in Europe.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityGiulio Ponte, Robert Anderson, Daniel Searson
dc.identifier.citationProceedings of the Australian Road Safety Research Policing and Education Conference, 2007: 10 p.
dc.identifier.orcidPonte, G. [0000-0002-1485-8433]
dc.identifier.orcidAnderson, R. [0000-0003-1306-6239]
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/45041
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherVictorian Dept of Justice
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.rightsCopyright retained by author
dc.source.urihttp://acrs.org.au/files/arsrpe/RS07054.pdf
dc.subjectPedestrian
dc.titleA comparison of the pedestrian passive safety performance of the new vehicle fleet in Australia, France and the United Kingdom
dc.typeConference paper
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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